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Friday, November 15, 2019
GRIFFIN NEAL
Volume 108, No. 36
Enrollment is down, again
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Enrollment at the University of Mississippi has decreased 3.5% over the past year, according to a Thursday afternoon press release from the Institutions of Higher Learning. This is the third consecutive year that enrollment has fallen, and this year it fell more than it has in previous years. Total enrollment across all University of Mississippi regional campuses and the medical center is 22,273 students, 817 fewer students than last year. In addition to the decline in enrollment at the university, enrollment at all Mississippi public universities experienced a 1.6% decrease from last fall. However, African American
Total Enrollment
22,273
The last 3 years of enrollment
Freshman Enrollment
Total minority enrollment 2018: 4,821
Total minority enrollment 2017: 5,526
Total minority enrollment 2016: 5,548
Every state in the U.S. is represented at the university Freshman= Total=
Top 3 states where American University of 58.3% Mississippi students are from
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Rebels to host No. 1 LSU
Total minority enrollment 2019: 5,395
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Chancellor’s salute
Krauss stresses free speech
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MASON SCIONEAUX
With two games left in the regular season, it’s do-or-die for Ole Miss football if it wants to appear in its first bowl game since 2015. That task doesn’t get any easier with its next opponent. The No. 1 LSU Tigers will come to Vaught-Hemingway Stadium this Saturday to take on the Rebels in the 108th installment of the Magnolia Bowl series. LSU head coach and former Ole Miss head coach Ed Orgeron will take his fourth trip back to Oxford since being fired from the program and
Elisha Krauss, conservative speaker and Daily Wire contributor, spoke about the importance of free speech on college campuses on Wednesday night. The event where she spoke, sponsored by the Ole Miss chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), sparked a controversy last week, as the request to use the initial venue for her speech — The Overby Center auditorium — was rescinded just days before the lecture. Following an interaction between Krauss and the university via the school’s
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Chancellor Glenn Boyce recognizes ROTC members during the playing of the national anthem at the ROTC Chancellor’s review. The review is held as a presentation of colors hosted by the chancellor.
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SEE KRAUSS PAGE 3
OLE MISS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SIGNS TOP-10 RECRUITING CLASS
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU SELL YOUR SOUL TO THE DEVIL?
Coach Yo has the trajectory of the program trending upward on the recruiting trail signing the No. 9 class in the nation, the best in the conference.
Ghostlight Repertory Theatre performs “The Tragic History of the Life & Death of Doctor Faustus” in Meek Auditorium.
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